On-Demand Analytics and Banking: What’s the Risk?

On-Demand Analytics and Banking: What’s the Risk?

André Nedelcoux joined Excelian in 2010 and is a Partner within the Technical Consulting Practice primarily responsible for Technology Advisory and High Performance Computing.
André has 12 years’ experience working as Programme Manager and Technical Architect at numerous financial services organisations including Credit Suisse, Unicredit, SG-CIB and Credit Agricole.
Before working at Excelian, Andre was the Partner in charge of the Financial Services Unit at OCTO Technology. Through this and his other roles, he has gained an in-depth knowledge of cutting-edge and niche technologies, with a focus on High Performance Computing and risk management.
Andre is an advocate of Agile Development methodologies which he has been implementing for clients since 2006 and he has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars on topics around Agile methodologies as well as Cloud Computing, GPGPUs and High Performance Computing.
Andre is fluent in French, English and Spanish and is a keen marathon runner, loves to watch football and is an avid photographer.

Rene-Paul Lafarie

Senior System Engineer, Financial Sector

IBM Platform Computing

Rene-Paul Lafarie

Rene-Paul Lafarie is IBM Platform Computing's senior system engineer focused on the Financial Services sector. Based in New York since 2007, Rene-Paul has significant experience architecting and implementing High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies for risk and trading. He brings in-depth knowledge of HPC environments in use at Wall Street and City firms. Mr. Lafarie has also held support and consultative roles in Europe and in Los Angeles. He holds a Masters equivalent degree awarded jointly by Universite de Compiegne in France and Anna University in Chennai, India. Rene-Paul is an avid photographer and rugby player in his spare time.

Jeff Hong,

Head of Industry, Financial Services

IBM Platform Computing

Jeff Hong,

Jeff Hong, CFA is IBM Platform Computing's head of industry focused on Financial Services. He brings strong knowledge in areas ranging from market data to regulations. Based in New York, Jeff has 15 plus years of industry-focused experience with multiple technology and consulting firms including Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems and start-ups. He holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Jeff spends his spare time traveling for fun and tutoring elementary school kids.

With globalization and regulations like Basel III, banks need to make optimal decisions particularly in respect to product development, counterparty credit risk management, and regulatory capital. Join IBM and Excelian as they look at how organizations are enabling better, “real time” intelligence in multiple areas from risk management to trading through ongoing system/IT integration, consolidation and evolution.

Register for this webinar to learn how to:

Gain key findings from surveys of banks on analytics and their challenges

Understand the impact of CVA and IMM on risk/IT system

See what role big data plays

Attend this webinar to learn best practices and technologies that can help banks make the right decision at the right times with the right analytical tools and right data.